Installation

Our easy Installation Guide will provide step by step instructions to get you started with b2evolution.

Upgrade

At this time we don’t necessarily recommend you upgrade a stable version to this alpha version (although we’ve done it on our own sites… ;) If you feel adventurous today, see: Upgrading an existing installation.

IMPORTANT: many root files are no longer needed in this version and should ideally be deleted from your web server. Also, you should use the provided tool to convert your database to UTF-8. Please check Upgrade to version 6 for instructions.

Every field of the post form can be enabled/disabled on a type by type basis.

Custom fields can be defined on a type by type basis.

Switching to a different post type now goes through a "select new type" page.

Admins / Moderators / Editors can now have a private discussion around posts ("meta comments")

Site structure:

It is now possible to set default collections to be used for displaying all login/registration and also for all messaging functions, no matter from which collection they are invoked. This allows a more consistent user experience across the site.

Cleaner URLs:

index.php now recognizes collection URLs like http://baseurl/shortname (requires mod_rewrite which should be enabled if you use b2evolution’s provided .htaccess file).

It’s now possible to configure collection URLs like http://baseurl/shortname/ in a single click

the first/the default collection will now be assigned just the baseurl (without index.php appearing in the URL)

b2evolution no longer ships with Stub Files like blog1.php– Everything is handled transparently by index.php now (but you can still use stub files if you need them)

Thanks for your compliments, we are also pretty excited with the new image.

In this version we introduced a major change in the back-office’s structure, default skin, etc, and also the list of improvements just doesn’t stop to grow up, so I guess that the version change should reflect that.

Actually, it will get its final name at the moment of the official release.

The “Disabled” option wasn’t removed, now can be set by post type and is disabled by default. You can enabled it by checking “Allow disabling comments” in Collection > Settings > Item type > Post (or any other) > Features. It was a global blog setting in v5 (http://b2evolution.net/man/comment-feedback-options). Manual page for this new feature is still pending.

@ednong hope you get used to the “Home” button in the evobar soon :D. We were looking for a word to identify the front-end matching “Collections” as a general contents concept instead of just “Blogs", and also trying to keep it as simple as possible, in order to ensure an easy translation into many languages. Finally, until v5, there were two links to the same place (See and Blogs), so we removed one of them and kept all the main controls at the left side of the bar.